New Heroes

Terrorblade

Artwork

Lore & Abilities

In Game Shots

Model Viewer Shots

Phoenix

Artwork

Lore & Abilities

In Game Shots

Model Viewer Shots

The New Bloom Map

The New Bloom version of the Dota 2 map features an overall oriental spring look with blossom trees, paper laterns, new tower models and Asian secret shops.

Example Map Assets

The map also features fireworks and firecrackers that go off at the start of the match and once the creep wave spawns which makes use of some fancy new particle effects and sound effects.

Map Screenshots

The Coming Of The Year Beast

The New Bloom patch also comes with a special "Battle of the Year Beast" gamemode which features the Year Beast teased in the preview pages.

The ability to fight the Beast will only be available when he is around. There will be a timer on the UI which shows the next time the Year Beast will be available to fight, the UI will also display how long the Beast will remain active for.

Whilst playing in normal Dota 2 gamemodes you will start to accumulate a new resource known as "Flamesalt Ingots", these Ingots can be redeemed for new unique in game items such as Fireworks and Lanterns which you can use to help defeat the Year Beast by either distracting, disabling or damaging him depending on the type of item you choose.

Your Flamesalt Ingots will be converted into Gold to use within the gamemode so you can purchase items. Any unspent gold will be converted back to Ingots after the match.

BATTLE THE YEAR BEAST!

"Inflict as much damage as you can to the Year Beast. The more damage you do, the better loot you get! If the Year Beast grabs someone, shoot a Firework at him to break them free!"

The abilities or final appearance of the Year Beast have yet to be confirmed, all we have at the moment is a work in progress model that is missing parts, final textures and new animations.

Year Beast Loot

The loot you earn from the Year Beast will be based off parts of the Year Beast itself and can be used in conjunction with new crafting recipes.

Year Beast Claw

Year Beast Scale

Year Beast Tail

Year Beast Horn

Crimson Parcels

Occasionally, heroes will come across Crimson Parcels, which may contain small gifts of Flamesalt Ingots for your defense against the Year Beast, or even Jade Tokens!

Potential Loot

Handful of Flamesalt Ingots

"Unpack this gift to earn 50 Flamesalt Ingots."

Handful of Jade Tokens

"Unpack this gift to earn 50 Jade Tokens."

Pile of Flamesalt Ingots

"Unpack this gift to earn 150 Flamesalt Ingots."

Pile of Jade Tokens

"Unpack this gift to earn 150 Jade Tokens."

Recipe: New Bloom Artifact

"Collect pieces of the Year Beast to complete this recipe."

Recipe: New Bloom Rare Artifact

"Collect pieces of the Year Beast to complete this recipe."

Fortune's Favor

Similar to the Wraith Night event you will also be able to purchase Favors for the New Bloom event which will boost the in take of your Flamesalt Ingots and allow you to earn Jade Tokens.

Fortune's Favor

"Use this item to increase the rate at which you earn Flamesalt Ingots by 100% for 500 game minutes. Additionally, you will earn Jade Tokens at the same rate and you will grant other players a stacking 20% bonus to their Flamesalt Ingot and Jade Token rate."

Abundant Fortune's Favor

"Use this item to increase the rate at which you earn Flamesalt Ingots by 500% for 500 game minutes. Additionally, you will earn Jade Tokens at the same rate and you will grant other players a stacking 100% bonus to their Flamesalt Ingot and Jade Token rate."

New Bloom Battle Booster

400% Prosperous Battle Point Booster (500 minutes)

"Available until February 20th. Use this item to increase the rate at which you earn Battle Points by 400% for 500 game minutes. Additionally, you will grant other players a stacking 80% bonus to their Battle Points rate. Battle Point Boosters are only consumed whenever Battle Points are earned and features like spectating games or coaching do not deplete them."

Recipe: New Bloom Artifact

"Collect pieces of the Year Beast to complete this recipe."

Potential Items You Can Craft

Wardfish

Blade of the New Year

Power of the Red Horse

Heavy Butterfly Blades

Locks of the New Bloom

Temple

Surge

Thunder Spirit

Recipe: New Bloom Rare Artifact

"Collect pieces of the Year Beast to complete this recipe."

Potential SETS You Can Craft (You can find more images of these sets below)

Strength of the Demon Stone Set

Flames of Prosperity Set

Gifts of Fortune Set

Ember Crane Set

Foreteller's Robes Set

Aria of the Wild Wind Set

Commander of the Dragon Guard Set

Desert Gale Set

Bloom Harvest Loot List

"Open to receive a random reward unique to the New Bloom!"

The items unboxed from here will also have the chance of getting a random Gem and Socket.

Ashtongue

Repose of the Defiant

Cauldron of Summons

Lantern of Auspicious Days

Beast of Vermilion Wilds

Bestmaster's Boar Summon.

Dragonfish Sceptre

Banners of Battle Fortune

Flight of the Jade Phoenix

Stone Dragon Soul

Treasure of Vermilion Renewal Chest

The New Bloom patch also brings a new Treasure Chest into play, the Treasure of Vermilion Renewal which requires the Seal of Vermilion Renewal to unlock it.

The Seal of Vermilion Renewal is currently being shown as an item you can cash in Jade Tokens for however this may change as the Keys for Treasure Chests are normally sold in the Dota 2 Store.

Treasure of Vermilion Renewal Loot List

You will also have a chance of getting a Single Battle Point Booster as a bonus item.

Charming Assassin Curls

Dragon's Breath

Fortune's Coin

Curse of the New Season

New Ultimate form for Lycan.

Jade Talon

Equine Battlehelm

Living Nelum

Staff of the Enduring Colt

* Sunglasses not included.

Healing Fount of the Lost Isles

New Healing Ward for Juggernaut.

Dragon Horse Spirit Totem

Treasure of Vermilion Renewal Unusual Courier List

Like all of the other Dota 2 Treasure Chests the Vermilion Renewal chest will have the chance of unboxing the following couriers as Unusual with the New Bloom Celebration Unusual effect:

Captain Bamboo

Baekho

Yonex's Rage

Shagbark

Nimble Ben

Kupu the Metamorpher

The Llama Llama

Itsy

Captain Bamboo

Mok

Blotto and Stick

Tinkbot

Alphid of Lecaciida

Waldi the Faithful

Arnabus the Fairy Rabbit

Deathripper

Azuremir

Coco the Courageous

Tory the Sky Guardian

Throe

New Bloom Celebration Unusual Effect

Sticking with the New Bloom theme the new unusual effect is based on a Firework effect and fuse trail.

We also have a new Prismatic Gem colour known as "Vermillion Renewal", hex color: #CA0123.

My Offering

Also part of the New Bloom event is the new offering UI which allows you to offer up your cosmetic items in the hopes of getting something in return.

"The time has come to prepare your tributes to the Eight Shades of Fortune! Sweep away your bad luck items, your ill-fated arms or couriers earned in tragic battle, by removing them from your Armory to your Offering. Be wary: once you have chosen to remove an item from your Armory to place into your Offering, it cannot be reclaimed."

You will get a confirmation dialogue before the item is taken.

You will be unable to offer up some items such as those tagged as untradable.

Ability Draft Gamemode

"Trade the organized chaos of Dota 2 for a taste of pure bedlam! Unlocked at level 11, in this mode each player is randomly assigned a hero, and each hero's abilities are placed into a pool. Players then take turns choosing which abilities their hero will bring into battle. Behold the majesty of a Pouncing Pudge, witness Axe fumbling with Psi Blades, and experience the terror of Illusory Orb Magnus."

The basis of this new mode is that you are basically creating a Custom Hero via a 4-Round Draft. You can choose up to 3 regular abilities and 1 ultimate.

The mode has a completely new interface implemented to help keep track of every stage and quickly see what abilities are available to pick from.

Those who get last pick for that round will get first pick on the following round.

If you fail to pick an ability before your craft timer expires you will be given a random ability from the pool.

Replay Takeover Mode

Another new feature introduced with the New Bloom update is the ability to takeover replays at any point and rewrite what happens in the rest of that match with the help of 9 other players.

"Grab your friends and rewrite history! Now you can take control in any replay created after the New Bloom update, then act out the rest of the match from that moment forward. During a replay, hit the Takeover button to create a lobby where everyone can choose which hero to portray. Resume the match, and become the one to turn the tide of a favorite pro play, discover a way to escape an impossible setup, or relive a cherished team fight again and again.

Takeovers are considered a new match and have separate replays, which are recorded from the moment you assume control."

The new Takeover feature will only be available on replays created after the New Bloom update.

Animation Updates

Dragon Knight's Animations

Dragon Knight has new sword on shoulder loadout animation that comes with his new "The Knight's Repose" Kinetic Gem.

Ember Spirit's Animations

Ember Spirit has three new Remnant animations for his new cosmetic item set.

Nature's Prophet's Animations

Nature's Prophet has three new alternative attack animations.

Storm Spirit's Animations

Storm Spirit also has new Remnant animations for his new cosmetic item set.

Wraith King's Animations

Wraith King now has friendly and enemy Force Staff animations.

Wraith King also has a new "Salvage Loadout" animation.

Vhoul Assassin's Animations

The Vhoul Assassin creep now has three new death animations where he drops his spear.

New Cosmetic Item Sets

Chaos Knight's Item Set

Chaos Legion Set

Chen's Item Set

Desert Gale Set

Death Prophet's Item Set

Foreteller's Robes Set

Earth Spirit's Item Set

Strength of the Demon Sto ne Set

Includes custom Remnant model.

This set also has a custom loading screen.

Ember Spirit's Item Set

Flames of Prosperity Set

This set also has a custom loading screen.

Legion Commander's Item Set

Commander of the Dragon Guard Set

This set also has a custom loading screen.

Lina's Item Set

Ember Crane Set

This set also has a custom loading screen.

Storm Spirit's Item Set

Gifts of Fortune Set

This set also has a custom loading screen.

Windranger's Item Set

Aria of the Wild Wind Set

This set also has a custom loading screen.

New HUD Skins

New Bloom

This will be the default HUD skin when playing during the New Bloom event.

Temple

Imbued Stone

Three Virtues

This HUD also includes a custom loading screen.

New Store Bundles

The Three Virtues Bundle

"Contains all of the items in the 'Strength of the Demon Stone', 'Flames of Prosperity', and the 'Gifts of Fortune' for the Three Spirits. Also includes a bonus loading screen and HUD."

New League Passes

SteelSeries Balkan Cup Season 1

"The SteelSeries Balkan Cup is an open tournament featuring the most talented Balkan teams competing for $1,000 USD worth of Na'Vi gaming gear."

Oscar Cup Tournament Seeason 3

"Teams compete for a grand prize of $200 in the Oscar Cup!"

GameLadders Dota 2 League

"The GameLadders Dota 2 League is a competition by GameLadders in order to bring a first hand experience of online Dota 2 on a competitive level to Sri Lanka."

joinDOTA League

"The first season of the joinDOTA League features over 2500 teams across the world competing in various divisions for the grand prize! Each purchase of this ticket will add $0.75 to the total prize pool!"

Pro Dota 2 Solo Ranked League Season 2

"120 players fight to claim the competition with a total prize money of up to $350!"

MLG T.K.O.

"joinDOTA and MLG team up to present the MLG T.K.O.! This tournament features the top eight European and American teams compete for $60,000 in an innovative knockout format!"

Pro Gaming Tours League

"16 teams compete in a single elimination bracket for $300!"

BoraDota

"32 teams in Brazil compete for R$600 in this World Cup style format tournament!"

UI Updates

New Bloom Dashboard & Loading Screen

The Dashboard has once again been re-themed to match the new event.

Loading Screen

Dashboard

Dashboard UI

The region selection screen has been updated to include the world map which shows the regions you are activating.

Hitting the Leave Game button will now trigger a second dialogue requiring you to confirm that you really want to leave the game.

The Archronicus now has a table of contents page.

You can now revisit the previous scripture for old events.

Spectator UI

When spectating a Captain's Draft game you will now see a list of the heroes available in the pool along the left side of the spectator draft screen. Heroes that are no longer available to pick will be greyed out.

In Game UI

Items that have been purchased while dead can now be sold, if that item was bought during the same death. Previously, no items could be sold while dead.

Highlighting an allied Ward will now display its effective range.

Holding ALT and clicking on an ability will now issue a context-sensitive ping for that ability. This can be used to indicate whether the pinged ability is ready for use, if you do not have enough mana to use this ability, or to indicate the number of seconds remaining on that ability’s cooldown.

When upgrading an item it will now remain in the same slot, for example you have a Magic Stick in Slot 1 and upgrade to a Magic Wand, the Magic Wand will now always be in the same slot as the Stick was originally.

Back End Changes

Updated Strings

Strings for the new Replay Takeover system.

+ "CopyToClipboard" "Copy to Clipboard"

+ "ReplayTakeover" "Takeover"

+ "LobbyTakeoverDescription" "Taking Over MatchID %s1 at time %s2"

+ "dota_hud_error_cant_takeover_have_lobby" "Can't Takeover, you are already in a lobby"

Updates to the chat disconnection message to notify about party abandons.

+ "DOTA_Chat_DisconnectWaitForReconnect" "%s1 has disconnected from the game. Please wait for them to reconnect. If the disconnected member is in your party, you will receive a secondary abandon on your account if they do not reconnect."

+ "DOTA_Chat_Abandon" "%s1 has abandoned the game. If the abandoning member is in your party, you will receive a secondary abandon on your account."

The Archronicus now has a table of contents.

+ // The Archronicus - Table of Contents

+ "arch_toc_header" "Table of Contents"

+ "arch_madmoon_toc" "The Mad Moon and The Ancients"

+ "arch_chronicleofthesos_toc" "Chronicle of Thesos"

+ "arch_summoningsea_toc" "The Summoning Sea"

+ "arch_lasthitchallenge_toc" "The Death Bounty"

+ "arch_cycleofsolstice_toc" "Cycle of Solstices"

+ "arch_wraithnight_toc" "The Wraith-Night"

New Fantasy League scoring options.

+ "fantasy_scoring_levels" "Levels"

+ "fantasy_scoring_kills" "Kills"

+ "fantasy_scoring_deaths" "Deaths"

+ "fantasy_scoring_assists" "Assists"

+ "fantasy_scoring_last_hits" "Last Hits"

+ "fantasy_scoring_denies" "Denies"

+ "fantasy_scoring_gpm" "Gold per Minute"

+ "fantasy_scoring_xppm" "XP per Minute"

+ "fantasy_scoring_stuns" "Stun Duration"

+ "fantasy_scoring_heals" "Healing Done"

+ "fantasy_scoring_towers" "Towers Destroyed"

+ "fantasy_scoring_roshans" "Roshans Killed"

Updates to the Fantasy League roster slot options.

+ "fantasy_league_roster_slot_core" "Core"

+ "fantasy_league_roster_slot_support" "Support"

+ "fantasy_league_roster_slot_any" "Any"

+ "fantasy_league_roster_slot_none" "None"

Error message for corrupt save games.

+ "SaveGameCorrupt" "The request save game is corrupt and can not be used."

The Auto Draft mode has been renamed to Balanced Draft. Also the addition of Ability Draft is listed as well.

+ "game_mode_17" "BALANCED DRAFT"

+ "game_mode_18" "ABILITY DRAFT"

"game_mode_17_desc" "Each team is given 5 heroes that are automatically selected with an attempt to balance roles."

+ "game_mode_18_desc" "Create a unique Hero by drafting from a pool of abilities."

Strings for the new Offering system.

+ "Dota_Backpack_OfferingsFilter" "My Offering"

+ "DOTA_Backpack_LoadOfferings_Header" "Loading Offerings"

+ "DOTA_Backpack_LoadOfferings_Body" "Requesting a list of your offerings to the Shades of Fortune."

A new voice actor for Dota 2, David Sobolov, has been credited for Terrorblade's voice work.

+ "DOTA_ActorCredits_21_Name" "David Sobolov"

+ "DOTA_ActorCredits_21_Role" "Terrorblade"

Strings for the new crafting dialogue.

+ "dota_create_dialog_0" "What have we here?"

+ "dota_create_dialog_1" "What’ve you got for me?"

+ "dota_create_dialog_2" "Let’s have a look."

+ "dota_create_dialog_3" "Need something opened?"

+ "dota_create_dialog_4" "I’ll get my tools."

+ "dota_create_dialog_5" "The one’s tricky..."

+ "dota_create_dialog_6" "It’ll be just a moment."

+ "dota_create_dialog_7" "Ah! I see how it works."

+ "dota_create_dialog_8" "Almost got it."

+ "dota_create_dialog_9" "Hang on a sec."

+ "dota_create_dialog_10" "It’s about to give!"

+ "dota_create_dialog_11" "There it goes!"

+ "dota_create_dialog_12" "Would you look at that!"

+ "dota_create_dialog_13" "Isn’t that something!"

+ "dota_create_dialog_14" "Got it!"

+ "dota_create_dialog_15" "And open!"

+ "dota_create_dialog_16" "Very nice!"

+ "dota_create_dialog_17" "Ha! That was easy."

+ "dota_create_dialog_18" "Enjoy!"

Unreleased UI Updates

Front Page Rework

There are a number of new UI files for a restructure of the front page of the Dashboard to allow for a multi panel approach with features such as the following:

Match Calendar

Sale Notifier

Dota 2 Store

Dota 2 Updates

Dota 2 Events

Workshop Voting

And More

Some initial panel mockups already in the files:

Custom Compendiums

The work has continued behind the scenes on custom/third party Compendiums. There is now a full example Compendium in the files which can be used as a basis for building your own.

We also now have the ability to test custom Compendiums from within the game client.

Fantasy League

Progress continues on the Fantasy League system as well, below you can see a preview of what stage the panels are currently at.

Unused New Bloom Icons

With the New Bloom event spreading the release of new cosmetic items and sets over a number of weeks. We already have some different gift icons within the files which may or may not be used at some point in the near future.

New Bloom Gift Small

New Bloom Gift Golden

Harmonious Battle Booster

Old Phoenix

The previous model for Phoenix was left in the files so I have included some shots to see how far the current version has come since the WIP one.

Unreleased Custom Couriers

Butch

Jade Dragon

Redhoof

Doesn't look finished yet from the textures and animations.

Unreleased Custom Wards

Chinese Ward

F2P Ward

Will most likely be a promotional item related to the Dota 2 Documentary Free2Play.

Unreleased Cosmetic Item Sets

A number of these sets will most likely appear at some point later in the New Bloom event.

Death Prophet's Items

A replacement model for Death Prophet's Exorcism ghosts.

Dragon Knight's Set

Gyrocopter's Set

Includes custom loading screen.

Gyrocopter's 2nd Set

Invoker's Set

Alternative cape.

Alternative hair style.

This set also includes a custom loading screen.

Luna's Set

Pudge's Set

This set also includes a custom loading screen.

Sven's Set

Unreleased Cosmetic Items

Broodmother's Items

Custom Spiderling model.

Lion's Items

Lion's Gazing Eye of the Demon Witch cosmetic item has been updated with an alternative version to choose from.